impossible

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Incapable of having existence or of occurring.

adj. Not capable of being accomplished: an impossible goal.

adj. Unacceptable; intolerable: impossible behavior.

adj. Extremely difficult to deal with or tolerate: an impossible child; an impossible situation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Not possible, not able to be done.

adj. Very difficult to deal with.

n. an impossibility

n. (with definite article) that which seems impossible

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible.

n. An impossibility.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Not possible; non-existent or false by necessity.

In law, in a stricter sense, prevented only by the act of God or a public enemy.

Excessively odd; not to have been imagined; such as would not have been thought possible: as, she is a most impossible person; he wears an impossible hat.

God, have rendered that relief physically impossible; and yet he would abrogate the poor-laws by an act of the legislature, in order to take away that _impossible_ relief, which the laws of God deny, and which the laws of man _actually_ afford.

So it came as a great surprise to the entire financial community when he came out, gave the classic Steve Jobs 'finger to the term impossible (the reason everyone loves him), and called it the iPhone - I'm sure he told his lawyers to make it happen.

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said, 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I dare say you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age I did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'"- Lewis Carroll, 'Through the Looking Glass'.

"Kenny: I still haven't called or seen or spoken to her... This is the cute girl who lives below me who made me cookies.shewholaughsloud: kenny, maybe you would be more attractive if you worked more than 10 hours a week.shewholaughsloud: oh wait, that's meKenny: niceKenny: She's cute and she made me cookies. What could go wrong, I thought?shewholaughsloud: you thought that, and then she moved awayshewholaughsloud: maybe she's staying at her boyfriend's?shewholaughsloud: maybe she's playing 'impossible to get'shewholaughsloud: hahahashewholaughsloud: I just made that upKenny: nice!shewholaughsloud: *proud*Kenny: that's awesomeKenny: they always play that."- work related IM conversation